I'm away from the source for the next 36 hours. I'll reply with patches by Saturday morning. ___ Ned Deily n...@acm.org -- []
..... Original Message ....... On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:01:39 +0100 ""Martin v. Löwis"" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >> There are two issues that I know of for OS X. One is just getting a >> python2 symlink into the bin directory of a framework build. That's >> easy. > >Where exactly in the Makefile is that reflected? ISTM that the current >patch already covers that, since the framwork* targets are not concerned >with the bin directory. > >> The other is managing symlinks (python, python2, and python3) >> across framework bin directories; currently there's no infrastructure >> for that. That part will probably have to wait until PyCon. > >What is the "framework bin directory"? The links are proposed for >/usr/local/bin resp. /usr/bin. The proposed patch already manages >these links across releases (the most recent install wins). > >If you are concerned about multiple feature releases: this is not an >issue, since the links are just proposed for Python 2.7 (distributions >may also add them for 2.6 and earlier, but we are not going to make >a release in that direction). > >It may be that the PEP becomes irrelevant before it is widely accepted: >if the sole remaining Python 2 version is 2.7, users may just as well >refer to python2 as python2.7. > >Regards, >Martin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
